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A History of The Camera Obscura

A History of The Camera Obscura.

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A History of The Camera Obscura

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  1. A History of The Camera Obscura

  2. The Chinese were the first people that we know of to write about the basic idea of the pinhole camera or "camera obscura" (Latin words meaning "dark room"). About 2,500 years ago (5th Century B.C.) they wrote about how an image was formed upside down on a wall from a pinhole on the opposite wall.

  3. About 2,400 years ago (4th Century B.C.) the famous philosopher Aristotle talked about a pinhole image formation in his work. He wondered why "when light shines through a rectangular peep-hole, it appears circular in the form of a cone?" He didn't find an answer to his question and the problem wasn't answered until about 2,000 years later in the 1500s.

  4. The camera obscura was first described outside China by the Iranian Muslim Philosopher/scholar, Alhazen, Ibn al-Haitham, of Basra in about 1030. Alhazen (965-ca.1039) as pictured on an Iraqi 10,000-dinar note

  5. In the 1500s many artists, including Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, used the "camera obscura" to help them draw pictures. A person or object would be outside the dark room and their image was reflected on a piece of paper and the artist would trace it.

  6. This is a drawing of a camera obscura done in 1646. This drawing shows an outer shell with lenses in the center of each wall and an inner shell with transparent paper for drawing. The artist needed to enter by a trap door in the bottom.

  7. "View of Delft" The camera obscura was used in the painting of this picture. It was painted about 1660 by Jan van der Meer van Delft (aka Jan Vermeer). His paintings are known for their "camera-like" detail and quality - but were painted 150 years before the invention of the camera. !

  8. The camera obscura is believed to have been used in this painting by Jan Vermeer. He painted this in 1665.  He was a great master who made paintings that to this day still amaze people with how much they look like a photograph.

  9. The camera obscura was made portable by the 1700s by putting it in a box with a pinhole on one side and a glass screen on the other. Light coming through this pinhole projectedan image onto the glass screen, where the artist could easily trace it by hand. Artists soon discovered that they could obtain an even sharper image by using asmall lens in place of the pinhole.

  10. Two types of portable cameras obscura.Drawing of "portable" camera obscura from 1769 (right).

  11. Abelardo Morell’s Room Obscura Photography Making Your Own Room with a View Video: Camera Obscura, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

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